SIREN Baroque kicks off its third season with Fyer, Fyer!, the first of four concerts exploring the ancient elements, in a special collaboration with the innovative baroque dancers Laura Careless and Marisol Cabrera.

The program features blazingly passionate works by Morley, Monteverdi, Rebel, Scarlatti, and Handel, all of which use fire as a metaphor for nature’s wrath, spiritual zeal, lustful ardor, or the terrors of hell. With SIREN Baroque’s “impassioned performances” (Early Music America) accompanied by strikingly seductive choreography, it promises to be an evening to ignite the senses.

2013/14 Season Announcement

SIREN Baroque is proud to present their 3rd concert season: 2013/14. This year is full of exciting music and special guests and we hope to see you this year. Please sign up to receive our newsletter, details and other exciting news will be sent out periodically.

Morningside Opera's production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas focuses on the opera's most iconic moment, Dido's "Remember me, but not my fate," to explore notions of fame, memory, and public opinion in modern celebrity culture. In an age where social media defines public personae, whose fate can ever really be forgotten? Virgil's hero is recast as a Vice presidentlal hopeful, Troy Aeneas, with Dido Carthage as his secret super-starlet paramour. Belinda, Dido's publicist, sees the romance as a chance to bump Dido's ratings. The SourceHeiress, a bitter celebrity blogger who hates "all in prosp'rous state," tears the couple apart by manipulating public opinion as if by magic, leaving Dido only one tragic possibility for escape.

Thank you Thank you Thank you! to all that participated in our CD campaign. We head into the studio - or rather - concert hall, to make our CD on February 11th and 12th. We expect the album to drop by late April!

With Love and Gratitude!

the SIRENS

OUR DEBUT CD CAMPAIGN IS LIVE!

On February 11th, 2013 we will head into the studio to record our "Women All-Stars of the Baroque Era" CD - a program that we began our ensemble with and played on tour in Mexico 2011. In this CD we highlight women composers of the Baroque Era: Barbara Strozzi, Elizabeth Jaquet de la Guerre, Isabella Leonarda, Francesca Caccini and more! This music is riviting, moving, lush and we feel needs to be heard! Help us out by donating (Partially Tax-Deductible!!) at:

All concerts take place at Saint Peter's Church on Lexington Avenue at 54th Street on Thursdays at 1:15 and last approximately 35 minutes.

photo by: Adrian Buckmaster. Styling: Candice Manacchio

CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT!

CANCELLED DUE TO SANDY!

SEASON OPENER!

2012-13 SEASON ANNOUNCED!

We are thrilled to announce our 2012/13 Concert season! We will be performing on some wonderful projects with some amazing people and hope that you will all make it out to see and hear us. Ticket information coming soon!

Siren Baroque, a New York-based all women chamber ensemble, along with special guests from the acclaimed Company XIV theater company, present a pastiche of classical music works about the earthly dreams of paradise, immortality, love, and illusions of grandeur by composers including Caldera, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Purcell, and more in this special Arcadia themed program.

End of the season celebration

The other night the SIRENS celebrated with a dinner in the west village. This year has been a whirlwind - everything from collaborative efforts with the fabulous Company XIV and Morningside Opera, to a tour in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico! We can't wait to pick it back up again in the fall - stay tuned! Lots of fantastic things are on the books. xthe Sirens

“…his inventive works are a brainy, high-entertainment mix of music hall, cabaret, theater and dance.” -NY TIMES

Excerpts from The Judgment of Paris-

Composed by John Eccles and John Weldon.

Libretto by William Congreve.

Don’t miss this Baroque Burlesque Opera fusing live music, projection, theatre, and dance to titillate and entertain. Watch as Pallas, Juno, and Venus vie for the title of fairest…. Who will win the Golden Prize?

on Thursday, March 29 throughout the school day, PS 321 will be filled with the sounds of Early Music from the Renaissance period as instrumentalists of all sorts descend on the school for a Renaissance Revolution! In October, a similar infiltration took over the school as nearly 20 cellists performed the music of Bach in every classroom. See SymphonyNOW’s video report from PS 321’s Bach Invasion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prk_9lOFF80Media coverage is welcome with advance notice. Please contact Christina Jensen atchristina@christinajensenpr.com or 646.536.7864 to make arrangements.

We're Headed to Mexico!! We are thrilled to be headed to Festival Musica Barroca de San Miguel de Allende on March 22, 2012!

Violin, viola, cello and piano students (ages 8-18) are invited to a weekend of hands-on learning about baroque music and dance. Workshop director Emily Hale and colleagues from New York City-based ensemble SIREN Baroque will introduce students to period instruments, coach student chamber ensembles of all levels*, and present a Saturday evening public concert. Auditors are welcome to register and observe sessions as we explore the culturally rich time of Louis XIV through the eyes of one of his favorite musicians, child wonder Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Get your time travel passport in order for interactive learning about life and music at the court of the Sun King!

*Beginners must demonstrate facility with basic music-reading and technical competence in order to participate.

We're Headed to Mexico!! We are thrilled to be headed to Festival Musica Barroca de San Miguel de Allende on March 22, 2012!

Violin, viola, cello and piano students (ages 8-18) are invited to a weekend of hands-on learning about baroque music and dance. Workshop director Emily Hale and colleagues from New York City-based ensemble SIREN Baroque will introduce students to period instruments, coach student chamber ensembles of all levels*, and present a Saturday evening public concert. Auditors are welcome to register and observe sessions as we explore the culturally rich time of Louis XIV through the eyes of one of his favorite musicians, child wonder Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Get your time travel passport in order for interactive learning about life and music at the court of the Sun King!

*Beginners must demonstrate facility with basic music-reading and technical competence in order to participate.